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The 10 greatest slide guitar moments in rock

From Johnny Winter to Led Zeppelin, here’s how a hit of slide guitar can lift a song to the heavens

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"I want to give back to my native community": Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke releases solo single in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Money raised by Never Run Out Of Road will be donated to the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, which works to end the trafficking of Native American women

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“To survive in this game, we had to get away from the 10-minute guitar solos”: the story of .38 Special, Blackfoot and the Southern Rock/AOR crossover

In the late 70s and early 80s, many of Southern Rock’s finest swapped twanging guitars for melodic rock magnificence

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The man who holds the world record for most drumstick hits in one minute has now played the guitar solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird on a stand-up kit

This is what happens when people have too much time on their hands, but in a good way

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14 of the best Grand Theft Auto radio songs to test your headphones or hi-fi system

Radio stations are integral to immersing you into the whacky world of GTA. Here are some of the best tracks to be found across the virtual airwaves.

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"These are hard-livin', whiskey-drinkin', gun-totin' Southerners who eat grits for breakfast, fried beans for lunch, and an entire raw buffalo for their dinner": Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet

The double-platinum Flirtin' With Disaster was the second album from the triple-guitar southern rock band from Jacksonville who weren't Lynyrd Skynyrd

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"People that mostly know Skynyrd from Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama: there's this heavier, less mainstream side to them." Metallica's Lars Ulrich reveals the five Lynyrd Skynyrd deep cuts that everyone needs to hear

Metallica's drummer has been digging deep into Lynyrd Skynyrd's back catalogue. Do you know these lesser celebrated songs?

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“At points it sounds more like Camel than Lynyrd Skynyrd”: The Marshall Tucker Band’s prog energy

Riding the wave of Southern rock, their 1973 debut album contained a distinctly different dimension

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Kid Rock: My stories about Metallica, Axl Rose, Pamela Anderson and more

He's bad karma for James Hetfield, was in a sex video shot by Scott Stapp, and watched Jerry Lee Lewis show Keith Richards who’s boss. He's Kid Rock, and these are his stories

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32 Great Songs Featured In Almost Famous

Almost Famous is jam packed with carefully chosen classic rock tracks and other favorites.

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“As many times as I've heard this song this is the first time it made me tear up”: Listen to Dolly Parton's epic 10 minute 50 seconds version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, featuring Ronnie Van Zant and one of Gary Rossington's final guitar solos

Rockstar is finally here, and Dolly Parton has out-done herself with her epic album-closing cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird

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“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album

Country star Dolly Parton cover of Free Bird also features one of the last appearances by late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

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The 10 best Lynyrd Skynyrd songs that aren’t Free Bird, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke

Deep cuts, party starters and live treasures – the connoisseurs’ Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, chosen by someone who knows them inside out

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Gary Rossington shaped the sound of Southern rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd – and his guitar style influenced everyone from the Black Crowes to Metallica

Learn the distinctive pentatonic licks of the Les Paul-toting Southern rock master

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“I played Sweet Home Alabama, and that became part of Metallica’s The Four Horsemen”: The Four Horsemen vs Mechanix – how Metallica and Megadeth released two warring versions of the same song

Megadeth leader and ex-Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine wrote a thrash metal classic called The Mechanix in the early ’80s. Today, both bands lay claim to vastly different versions of the song.

Guitar World

One of the strangest guitar mods of all time? How Leon Wilkeson adapted his Gibson Thunderbird following the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in ‘77

The ’63 T-Bird had a metal extension added after Wilkeson injured his left arm in the crash

Guitar World

Lynyrd Skynyrd release footage of Gary Rossington’s blazing final performance: “It is certainly bittersweet”

The Southern rock legend was captured playing Gimme Three Steps at the band’s 50th Anniversary show at The Ryman

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Watch Gary Rossington's poignant final performance of Gimme Three Steps with Lynyrd Skynyrd

The performance was filmed at the historic Ryman Theater in Nashville, and comes from the upcoming cinema release The 50th Anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd

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A beginner’s guide to Southern Rock in 5 albums

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Zakk Wylde picks his 5 essential Lynyrd Skynyrd tracks

The Black Label Society frontman and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has assembled a playlist to convert anyone to the most legendary band in Southern rock

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Josh Homme on Lynyrd Skynyrd continuing with no original members: "They're a covers band...but people still want to hear the songs"

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme discusses bands continuing their careers after losing integral members

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Say hi to the your new favourite southern rockers, Hillbilly Vegas

"We’re a band from the South and we play music that comes from the South" - Hillbilly Vegas frontman Steve Harris

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Someone out there has the only recording of a one-off AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd studio jam and the world may never get to hear it

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington once revealed there’s a version of Sweet Home Alabama with Aussie rockers AC/DC on it

Guitar World

Vinnie Moore: “The SG is a recent discovery of mine – I can’t believe I’ve never owned one. I didn’t realize how cool they were”

The shred maestro talks getting vocals on new solo album Double Exposure, his newfound love of Epiphone SGs and the future of UFO

Guitar World

Everything you need to know about Metallica's scorching new album – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Steel Panther, Paul Gilbert does Dio, Chris Holmes, the top 10 tools for every gig and tributes to Gary Rossington and David Lindley

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